Weather forecast: a drop in temperatures over the weekend, with wind and showers in the Adriatic regions and the south By Sunday temperatures are expected to fall to around 3–4°C below the seasonal average 30 October 2026
The pilot, the specialist, the sergeant and the medic: who are the victims? Four soldiers have lost their lives when an Italian helicopter crashed in Bosnia during a training flight by Viola Giannoli 29 October 2026
Maldives tragedy: the ashes of Monica Montefalcone and her daughter Giorgia Sommacal lost at sea The final journey of the two divers who died in the Vaavu Atoll, in the waters off their beloved Sardinia, alongside their families by Marco Lignana 29 October 2026
Verona: man killed his wife with insulin to claim her life insurance policy – nurse arrested after two years The murder took place in 2024. The victim was 32 years old. The injections had begun at home and continued in hospital. The man, who continued to call her “the love of my life”, attempted suicide. However, in wiretapped conversations, he had described himself as very satisfied by Elena Dusi 29 October 2026
Demonstrations: the Interior Ministry’s strategy – isolating the violent and exercising restraint in dealing with protesters On the eve of tomorrow’s demonstrations in 50 squares, interior minister Piantedosi met with provincial police chiefs and prefects: “There are cause for concern, but we will also manage the unpredictable.” The use of preventive detention has been confirmed by Alessandra Ziniti 29 October 2026
Israel in court as injured party: Genoa investigating magistrate sets preliminary hearing for Mohammad Hannoun The Genoese architect is accused, along with five other people, of having financed Hamas through his association. He will only be able to attend via video link from Terni prison by Marco Lignana 29 October 2026
Pete Brown, the ‘lord’ of the pubs: we English are stiff and wary, but at the bar, barriers come down The UK’s leading expert speaks out: “Celebrities help, but these venues endure because they are at the heart of British identity” from our correspondent Antonello Guerrera 29 October 2026
Licence to pour: from Daniel Craig to Ed Sheeran, stars save struggling British pubs The British actor has bought the Horseshoe in Clerkenwell. And he’s not the only one: from Ian McKellen to Guy Ritchie, more and more celebrities are investing in the UK’s ‘public houses’, whilst nearly one a day is closing due to taxes, the high cost of living and young people drinking less from our correspondent Antonello Guerrera 29 October 2026
Becciu trial further postponed to January: “We are on edge”. But the pm has yet to file the documents Back in March, the Court of Appeal had already asked the prosecution to share all the documents from the preliminary investigation in full, without any omissions, which has not yet happened by Iacopo Scaramuzzi 29 October 2026
Italy takes to the streets: from Turin to Naples, all tomorrow’s marches The planned demonstrations, city by city. To prevent disturbances, some routes have been diverted. Helmets and balaclavas are banned near the Mole; in Rome, access to Termini and the Colosseum is restricted edited by Luigi Gaetani 29 October 2026
Disaster in Spain: one of the three missing Italian women has been found. The other two are still missing This morning, one of them contacted our Consulate in Madrid. The other two are an Italian-Venezuelan woman and an Italian-Argentinian woman. The death toll has risen to 69 di Alessandra Ziniti e dal nostro inviato a Toledo Corrado Zunino 29 October 2026
“He killed his cousin, who suffered from dysphagia, with a cream-filled doughnut”. The motive? “The inheritance” The case is in Reggio Emilia. The 76-year-old relative is under house arrest. The victim, who was being treated at a care home, suffered from dysphagia: she died from suffocation by Caterina Giusberti 29 October 2026
Stays abroad, the boom in Chinese and bilingual programmes: schools increasingly open to the world The 2026 Report by the National Observatory on Internationalisation and Student Mobility, compiled by the Intercultura Foundation, ETS and Ipsos Doxa by Viola Giannoli 29 October 2026
“That investigating judge is biased in favour of Gaza”: the right-wing smear campaign against Landoni Facing charges over a pro-Palestine appeal from a year ago. Yet the very same petition bears the signature of the Pm who sought Siher’s imprisonment by Serena Riformato 29 October 2026
Fakir pleaded for help 23 times before he died: here is the video Bologna: man’s final minutes captured on police bodycam. Family lodges fresh complaint by Giuseppe Baldessarro 29 October 2026
Clashes on 17 October, intelligence warning ignored by the Interior Ministry The intelligence services had warned of the unrest that subsequently took place. The suspicion of a single coordinating force behind the leaflets that called for the protests by Giuliano Foschini 29 October 2026
Two disasters in one year on the same line. Sánchez under fire; three days of mourning The crash has shaken up the run-up to the 29 November elections: a debate has flared up over transport safety and maintenance by Benedetta Perilli 29 October 2026
Former minister, tourists and young people among the victims: “Like the apocalypse” Rescue operations continued non-stop throughout the night, with excavation work also carried out with the aid of drones. The priest said: “I administered the last rites to two young people; I am devastated.” by Alessandra Ziniti 29 October 2026
Stefano Baldini: “Those last endless eleven minutes in the twilight of Athens” A look back at 29 August 2004, when, at the age of 33, he was the first to cross the finish line of a legendary marathon. The latest episode of *The Night of Miracles* by Federico Pace 29 October 2026
Weather forecast: Italy split between sunshine and clouds; from Friday, rain on the Adriatic coast and in the south Mainly sunny in the western regions, with more cloud cover in the east, and cloud building up along the southern Apennines and the Adriatic coast from the Marche to Puglia 29 October 2026